My belief is based on faith. I find that most academics I talk to cannot understand faith at all.
They have minds that are attracted to complexity and cognitive reasoning but cannot grasp a simple thing like faith at all. It is that simple, either you believe or you don't. Its probably not even anything to do with thought at all.
Have a look at Orch-OR, the Penrose Hameroff theory of consciousness and its physical presence in our brains.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571064513001188
I think I get what faith is - it's belief without evidence. I just don't get why and when it's okay to have it. Is it okay to just believe on faith that Miley Cyrus is a robot from the future? Is it okay to believe on faith that the climate is not changing as a result of human activity? Is it okay to just believe on faith that infidels should be murdered?